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Subject: Re: [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with
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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> In some environments (at least Hurd), process-attributes is
> unimplimented and always returns nil.  This ends up causing test
> failures (see e.g. id:87a9ffofsc.fsf@zancas.localnet).
>
> Historically and according to POSIX 1003.1-2001, a signal of 0 can be
> used to check the validity of a pid. This seems less heinous than
> parsing the output of ps(1).

pushed, along with some fiddling with debian emacs packaging, as
debian/0.17-3

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